Bradley Cooper visits Boston Marathon bombing survivor

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Bradley Cooper visits Jeffrey Bauman Jr.

One of the most horrific images to emerge from the Boston Marathon bombing was of Jeffrey Bauman Jr. The spectator at Monday's race had both of his legs blown off by the blast — an injury captured by photographers and transmitted around the world.

Cooper — in the city filming David O. Russell's American Hustle with Jennifer Lawrence — flashed his famous smile while posing for the shot.

This isn't the first time the actor has visited survivors in the hospital, though he doesn't seek publicity for it. The actor even thanked the heroes he's visited with helping him prepare for his role as Pat Solitano in the Oscar-nominated Silver Linings Playbook.

"The coolest thing about me playing Pat Solitano was being able to go around the country and seeing all the men and women, the vets who have suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and the real need that we have to develop a strategy to take care of them," he said at the 2013 MTV Movie Awards. "More people have committed suicide last year than died in the field of battle and it's an epidemic."